Suicide Grief Support Forum

The Suicide Grief Support Forum is a public message board, an outreach project of the Parents of Suicides (POS) and Friends and Families of Suicides (FFOS) Internet Communities. The forum officially began on October 2, 2002.

Our mission is to provide information, support and comfort to anyone whose life has been touched by the suicide of another person. Connecting with others who have walked the same road can sometimes make a difference in how we survive a tragedy that may be incomprehensible.

The board is monitored by special volunteers who give freely of their time in memory of the people they lost to suicide.

We do not pretend to be professionals, and we encourage anyone whose needs are greater than can be met here to seek out professional help.

My little brother comitted suicide on January 19th 2012. He was 29 years old with a wife and a 14 month old son. He shot himself 2 days after my 31st birthday. His wife and my older Sister found him, and they have not been the same since. No one deserves to walk into what they walked into that night. We were very close growing up, and I feel like a part of me died with him.

I am frustrated that he did this. I can't understand what could have been so bad that he decided to leave us all behind to pick up the pieces. I feel literal pain knowing that he choose to end his story like this. His life is overshadowed by how he died. He didn't live the way he died. His son will not know him personally, and every parent knows that no one loves your child like you do.

When someone takes their life by suicide their pain does not end ... it only transfer to those who are left behind. I lost my beautiful son on 4/24/11. He had just turned 17 yrs old on 4/21/11. So even though I am coming up on a year ... the pain is still so unbearable. My son showed no signs. I thought he was the perfect child. They leave us with so many unanswered questions, so much guilt, and anger. But yet our hearts still are broken because we lost the one we loved and couldn't save them.I know all too well what you sister and your brother's wife are going through. I was with my son when he shot himself. We were target shooting (which was something we did a lot). So they are and will for a long while going through a great amount post trauma from this. My best advise for them as well as for you is seek a good therapist who can help you through the raw emotions.Try to educated yourself as much as you can about suicide. It will help you to understand that our love ones did not do this to be hateful or to hurt us. It is just the pain they were feeling was too much .And my biggest thing is to take this tragic (something the devil wanted to destroy me with) and turn it to something good. I just pray each day for God to carry me through this nightmare until I am strong enough to stand on my own ... as I will pray the same for you and your family. God Bless YouAnd may my angel may show your brother around the kingdom of heaven

I too am sorry for your loss and pain. I am 7 months into this journey after losing my dearhusband. He too was well loved amd had everything to live for. I also found him taking his last breath. I suggest you get a hold of S.O.S. survivors of suicide. I am now involved in a weekley meeting with them . Some of theideas I have been introduced there have been life changing forme to learn how to live with Mikey's death, also this forum is the greatest and evryone here understands you and will not judge. God bless you. Peace suepred.